HARTFORD (AP) – Dozens of florists, nursery workers, greenhouse growers and Christmas tree farmers are descending this weekend on the Governor’s Residence in Hartford to install holiday decorations.
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[...]HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) – Gov. M. Jodi Rell wants legislators to return to the Capitol to fix the state’s campaign finance reform law and attempt to close Connecticut’s budget gap.
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[...]WEST HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) – Consumer activist and Connecticut native Ralph Nader says he’s “absorbing” the feedback he’s receiving about a possible bid for the U.S. Senate, saying he wants to first gauge the level of grassroots support before making a decision.
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Hamden (AP) – Police say a Woodbridge selectman has been arrested after driving drunk and leading state police on a three-mile pursuit.
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[...]Hartford (AP) – Connecticut’s Green Party is hoping to persuade its famous native son, Ralph Nader, to jump into the hot U.S. Senate race.
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[...]Hartford (AP) – Connecticut lawmakers want to know how the recession is affecting children.
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[...]By DOUGLASS K. DANIEL
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) – Michaele and Tareq Salahi didn’t look out of place at Tuesday’s White House state dinner. They were all smiles as they rubbed shoulders with Vice President Joe Biden, White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel, Washington Mayor Adrian Fenty and CBS [...]
(WTNH) - With his daughters at his side, President Obama Wednesday pardoned a turkey named ‘Courage’ at a traditional White House Thanksgiving event.
“Thanks to the interventions of Malia and Sasha – because I was planning to eat this sucker – ‘Courage’ will also be spared this terrible and delicious fate,” [...]
(WTNH) – Gov. Jodi Rell said she will call the general assembly into special session on December 15th to work on plans to close a projected budget deficit of $466.5 million.
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[...]Trenton, N.J. (AP) – Former CNN anchor Lou Dobbs is seriously considering running for U.S. Senate in New Jersey as “an intermediary step” that could lead to a run for the White House.
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[...]Hartford (AP) – Connecticut’s healthcare advocate Kevin Lembo says he has filed paperwork to explore a possible bid for lieutenant governor.
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[...]Washington, D.C. (WTNH) – Senator Chris Dodd (D-CT) issued the following statement today welcoming Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to the United States. Singh’s visit is the first official state visit of the Obama presidency.
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[...]Hartford (WTNH) – Governor M. Jodi Rell announced Tuesday a comprehensive deficit mitigation plan intended to erase a shortfall of nearly $470 million in the state budget that took effect in September. The plan includes both spending cuts made under Governor Rell’s authority and cuts requiring legislative approval, further “fund [...]
Hartford (WTNH) – With the departure of Sam Caligiuri from the race for U.S. Senate and Tom Foley likely to follow, the Connecticut Democrats issued the following statement:
“For an allegedly “vulnerable” incumbent, Chris Dodd may not seem like such an easy picking to the candidates running against him. In [...]
(WTNH) – A Connecticut businessman who is running for the U.S. Senate now says he is considering a run for governor instead.
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[...]Hartford (AP) – Republican U.S. Senate candidate Sam Caligiuri says he’s switching races and plans to challenge 5th District Rep. Chris Murphy instead of Connecticut Sen. Chris Dodd in 2010.
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[...]Hartford (AP) – A watchdog group that was created to review Connecticut state government contracts in the aftermath of scandals in former Gov. John Rowland’s administration has not met this year because of the state’s budget problems.
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[...]Hartford (WTNH) – Chief Capitol Correspondent Mark Davis sat down with Senator Joe Lieberman, Monday, to talk about health care.
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[...]Hartford (WTNH) – Governor M. Jodi Rell today announced that the state’s foreclosure mediation program she championed with the co-chairs of the Legislature’s Banks Committee continues to help thousands of Connecticut residents avoid the loss of their homes.
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[...]Washington (AP) – President Barack Obama said Monday the nation’s economy is in good shape for the long term thanks to “core strengths” such as its universities, its innovation and a dynamic workforce.
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[...]STAMFORD, Conn. (AP) – The closest adviser to Gov. M. Jodi Rell says in a rare interview that it’s unfair to refer to Rell’s chief of staff as Connecticut’s shadow governor.
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[...]WASHINGTON (AP) – Invoking the memory of Edward M. Kennedy, Democrats united Saturday night to push historic health care legislation past a key Senate hurdle over the opposition of Republicans eager to inflict a punishing defeat on President Barack Obama. There was not a vote to spare.
Read more »With a key vote in the U.S. Senate scheduled for tomorrow night on national health care reform, Connecticut’s Joe Lieberman is one of the key Senators to watch.
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[...]Washington (WTNH) – Chief Political Correspondent Mark Davis talks exclusively, one-on-one with Connecticut Senator Joe Lieberman, the man in the middle of the national heath care reform debate.
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[...]Washington (AP) – The Senate ethics committee on Friday admonished Sen. Roland Burris, D-Ill., for making “inconsistent, misleading or incomplete” statements about the circumstances surrounding his appointment to the seat once held by Barack Obama. The committee didn’t recommend any punishment.
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COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) – South Carolina lawmakers say they’ll formally consider the possible impeachment of Gov. Mark Sanford for the first time next week.
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[...]Wethersfield (AP) – The Connecticut Labor Department says the state’s unemployment rate increased slightly to 8.8 percent, even though employers added 1,000 jobs in October.
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[...]Washington (AP) – The Senate will hold its first vote on health care legislation on Saturday night and Democrats will need 60 votes to prevail.
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[...]Washington (AP) – Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said Thursday the government’s $700 billion bailout program will end “as soon as we can,” and that part of it will be used to lower the soaring federal debt.
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[...]New York (AP) – Fox News Channel correspondent Major Garrett says he’s a “conscientious objector” in his network’s fight with the White House. He interviewed Barack Obama on Wednesday, and the topic never came up.
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[...]By DAVID ESPO
AP Special Correspondent
Washington (AP) – Health care legislation heading for the Senate floor this week would extend coverage to 31 million uninsured Americans at a cost of $849 billion over a decade, a Democratic leadership aide said Wednesday, citing a report from congressional budget experts.
Read [...]Hartford (WTNH) – Texting technology may soon be adaptable to the state’s 9-1-1 emergency service.
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[...]Hartford (AP) – Connecticut lawmakers are learning that the state’s budget woes are on track to get much worse in 2012.
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[...]Washington (AP) – Sen. Robert Byrd says he’s looking forward to the next 56 years and 320 days.
That’s how long he’s served in the House and Senate. The West Virginia Democrat today became the longest-serving lawmaker in congressional history.
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Newtown police booking photo of Jason Bartlett.
Newtown (WTNH) – A Connecticut state representative faces multiple violations after he was pulled over by police in Newtown.
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[...](WTNH) – Green Party of Connecticut officials announced Tuesday that they would welcome Ralph Nader into the 2010 race for U. S. Senate and think he would have a good chance to win against current Senator Dodd.
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[...]Hartford (AP) – The chairman of the Connecticut Republicans has asked one of his party’s candidates for U.S. Senate to consider switching races.
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[...]Washington (AP) – A Senate committee is hearing testimony today about the need to change the way banks impose overdraft fees.
In prepared remarks, consumer advocates tell the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee it’s an expense that hits young depositors and the poor particularly hard.
Read more [...]Meriden (WTNH) – All five of Connecticut’s members of Congress voted for health care reform in the House. But only one congressman is being targeted by the industry for that vote.
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[...]By FOSTER KLUG
Associated Press Writer
Washington (AP) – Some conservative commentators seized on President Barack Obama’s deep bow to Japan’s Emperor Akihito over the weekend, accusing the U.S. commander in chief of groveling before a foreign leader.
So did he?
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[...]Colchester (WTNH) – There is a controversy brewing surrounding a contractor hired by the DOT to rebuild a picturesque bridge. But the contractor says it’s a smear because they are a non-union business.
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[...]Hartford (WTNH) - Connecticut Democrats will hold their 2010 nominating convention in the third week of May, the party announced Monday.
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[...]HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) – Campaign officials for Connecticut Sen. Christopher Dodd say Vice President Joe Biden will visit Hartford on Dec. 11 for a fundraiser for the senator, who is trailing in the polls in his 2010 re-election bid.
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[...]Hamden (WTNH) - A Quinnipiac University poll this week spelled more bad news for Senator Chris Dodd, but what does the public think about Connecticut’s other U.S. Senator?
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[...]By CHARLES HUTZLER
Associated Press Writer
Beijing (AP) – President Barack Obama sat down with the Chinese leader Monday night, hours after he pointedly nudged his host country to stop censoring the Internet access, offering an animated defense of the tool that helped him win the White House – and suggested [...]
Hartford (AP) – Connecticut officials say they want the state to get ahead of the curve in planning for the eventual widespread presence of electric-powered vehicles.
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[...]Hartford (AP) – Changes made five years ago to a Connecticut law aimed at revealing medical mistakes at hospitals have allowed the facilities to keep more errors secret, a Hartford Courant analysis shows.
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[...]PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) – Gov. Don Carcieri, a gay marriage opponent, has opened the door slightly to the limited recognition of same-sex relationships in Rhode Island.
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[...]WASHINGTON (AP) – The Catholic Archdiocese of Washington is threatening to stop providing some social services unless lawmakers change a proposal to legalize same-sex marriages.
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[...]By ANDREW TAYLOR
Associated Press Writer
Washington (AP) – The Obama administration is alerting domestic agencies to expect their budgets will be frozen or even cut by 5 percent, part of an election-year push to rein in record deficits that threaten the economy and Democrats’ political prospects next fall.
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